6 out of 10 Hong Kong parents beat their children
On May - 5 - 2010
Hong Kong- Nearly six out of 10 Hong Kong parents use corporal punishment to discipline their children, a child welfare group said Tuesday.
Researchers for the organization Against Child Abuse said 58 per cent of parents interviewed in a survey admitted to smacking or caning their children in the past 12 months.
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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